Ms. Annie May Conley

April 5, 1930 - October 24, 2020

Fort Worth, Texas – Annie May Conley, 90, passed away at her home on Saturday morning, October 24, 2020.

Visitation: 6-8 pm Thursday, November 5, 2020 at Laurel Land Funeral

Home in Fort Worth. COVID-19 restrictions apply (see dignitymemorial.com). Church Service at Broadway Baptist Church: Friday,

November 6, 2020, will be restricted by “invitation only” due to COVID-

19 precautions. Graveside burial following at Laurel Land Funeral Home.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials to Annie May Conley can be

made as donations to Broadway Baptist Church and sent to: Annie May Conley Memorial, ATTN: Fran Patterson, Broadway Baptist Church, 305 West Broadway Avenue, Fort Worth, TX, 76104.

Born Annie May Morriss in rural Ramer, Alabama, April 5, 1930, to two teachers, Jesse Edwin Morriss and Annie May (Atkeson) Morriss, she spent her childhood in Wetumpka, Alabama. After graduation from Auburn University in 1952 with a B.S. in Math and English, she married and arrived in Fort Worth in 1954, where her husband, David Lindsey Conley, was on the faculty of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1955-1978.

For 45 years, Annie May Conley taught mathematics in Fort Worth, including classes at Polytechnical H.S. (1965-69), honors math at Paschal H.S. (1969-1995), PSAT/SAT prep (1985-2005) and tutoring (1995-2010). Education distinctions include: record growth of The Penta Club at Paschal (1980-1995); member—Texas State Textbook Committee; awards—Tandy Scholar Award and American Bank/Fort Worth Fellowship Award (1984 & 1985); and induction into the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Texas State Organization, Honor Society for Key Women in Education.

As a 55-year member of Broadway Baptist Church, Annie May served countless initiatives, including: the Chancel Choir (1970-2018), which sang weekly, and presented annual Fort Worth Symphony community concerts (1983-1998); with music minister Tom Stoker, she served on Van Cliburn’s committee to bring the $2.4 million Rildia Bee O’Bryan Cliburn organ to Broadway (1994); and as an educator, she taught Sunday School and English language to international students. In the 1980s, she was elected Church Deacon, one of the first Texas Baptist women to be so honored, and promoted outreach to sufferers of AIDS. In September 2020, she was elected Deacon Emeritus, and was noted for a life “guided by Micah 6:8, doing justice, loving kindness and walking humbly.”

Like her father, Annie May was a tireless gardener at her Wedgwood home. She was a fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the Auburn Tigers and was known for her humorous puns and Southern turns of phrase, her passion for crosswords, jigsaw puzzles, Liverpool Rummy and her annual trips home to see her family in Alabama.

Preceded in death by parents J. E. and Annie May Morriss, brother Edwin (Teressa) Morriss, sister Jeane (Dan) Law

Survived by children Karen (Ed) Schaefle, Brian (Lisa) Conley, Ann Taff,

Jill Conley; grandchildren Ben Taff, Rachael (J.D.) Duran, Chris (Renee) Taff, Colleen (Ian) Cook, Tara Schaefle, Emily Conley; six great grandchildren; sister Mary Clackler and many nieces and nephews.